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...working for the New Yorker, love affairs in India and America, and the trials of house building in Maine. The unifying theme is loss, and the recovery, in unexpected places, of part of what has been lost. Going from his blindness, Mehta adds other privations, such as his bad luck with lovers, to turn his life's story into an epic. Because its author has had a head start on other memoirists, Continents of Exile, now that it's done, gives us an advance preview of how far the memoir is likely to succeed in its quest for upward mobility...
...leave the reader with a vivid sense of Mehta's personality, and with his gifts of curiosity, sympathy and intellect. Above all, it is his essays, not his memoirs, that testify to the tenacity and talent that allowed this blind man from an impoverished country to sidestep his bad luck, take full advantage of his good luck, and turn himself into one of the world's best-known journalists of the 1960s...
...taken maybe one charge in my entire career, so it was complete luck. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” Stehle said afterwards. “[Will] Venable just came at me and...I just kind of flopped and thank God they gave me the call...
...game came down to the little things, and we didn’t do the little things well and they did,” Scott said. “We’re playing in bad luck right now, and I think there’s only one way to get yourself out of that bad luck, and that’s to do the little things...
...soldiers' good luck set many civilians dreaming of Middle East riches. They soon got their chance: last November, newly formed Meridian Services began hiring truck drivers, mechanics, storemen and computer operators for the Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company, which transports into Iraq "everything from frozen food to vehicles and construction materials," says Meridian director Timoci Lolohea. Salaries start at $1,700 a month, and "the response from the public has been overwhelming." Nine hundred men are already in Kuwait, and Meridian staff are touring rural villages in a drive to sign up another 4,000 workers, including women...